Japan protests China's travel advisory over Taiwan remarks

Japan has raised objections aft China advised its citizens to debar visiting Japan

BEIJING -- Japan raised objections Saturday aft China advised its citizens to debar visiting Japan, arsenic a feud implicit the caller Japanese leader's remarks connected Taiwan showed nary signs of dying down.

The authorities successful Tokyo lodged a protestation and its apical spokesperson, Chief Cabinet Secretary Minoru Kihara, urged China to instrumentality “appropriate measures,” Japan's Kyodo News Service reported.

China advised its citizens Friday to refrain from traveling to Japan successful the adjacent future. It cited earlier attacks against Chinese successful Japan and what it called Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi 's “erroneous remarks” connected Taiwan, which it said undermined the ambiance for China-Japan exchange.

Kihara told reporters that it is precisely due to the fact that of the differences betwixt the 2 governments that multilayered connection is essential, a Kyodo study said.

China has repeatedly recommended its nationals instrumentality information precautions erstwhile successful Japan implicit the past year, but the latest announcement appeared to beryllium stronger successful advising against travel, according to notices posted connected the website of its embassy successful Tokyo.

Japan is an immensely fashionable destination for Chinese tourists, providing a much-needed economical boost but besides sparking an anti-China and anti-foreigner backlash from some. It's unclear what interaction the advisory volition person connected the willingness of Chinese to sojourn Japan, but respective Chinese airlines offered no-penalty refunds connected antecedently sold tickets to Japan pursuing the government's announcement.

The quality suggests that Japan's already fragile relations with China could crook rocky nether Takaichi, who supports gathering up the subject to antagonistic imaginable threats from Beijing and its claims to contested territory successful adjacent waters successful the occidental Pacific.

Takaichi, who became premier minister past month, said successful parliament that a Chinese onslaught connected Taiwan could represent “an existential threat” to Japan, requiring the usage of unit by its military.

The remark prompted beardown objections from China, including a societal media station from its consul wide successful Osaka past play saying “we person nary prime but to chopped disconnected that soiled cervix that has been lunged astatine us.”

His comment, which was aboriginal taken down, sparked a Japanese diplomatic protestation that was followed by a back-and-forth that continued each week.

China claims Taiwan, a self-governing land disconnected its coast, arsenic its territory and has staged threatening subject drills successful the surrounding waters successful caller years.

Neither the United States nor Japan has authoritative diplomatic relations with Taiwan, but the U.S. is the main supplier of defence instrumentality to the island's subject and opposes solution of the China-Taiwan concern by force.

Japan is simply a subject state of the United States and hosts American troops astatine respective U.S. bases connected its territory, including a large Navy basal southbound of Tokyo.

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